"I didn't mean..." Literally. There are some things Raphael is frighteningly literal about, other (fewer) were he's given to figures of speech. "But yes, that's an accurate description of the circumstances."

He knows, beyond a doubt, that he could demand her light. But that would leave her in the dark and he won't take that from her. "Walk with me a while." He's beg forgiveness later from wandering. Brigid had been silent too long to account for sleeping while healing, he wanted to know why.